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Posted by: supersi Thursday, April 13, 2006
Seeing as we have a four day weekend over Easter, we made a somewhat last minute decision to go away somewhere. I read about this famous train journey called the Glacier Express that goes from Zermatt to St. Moritz through the Swiss Alps. So we decided to get a Swiss Rail Pass and head to Switzerland! The flight from London to Geneva is only 1:40, and the same to return from Zurich.

I used my old friend Microsoft AutoRoute to plot out our trip. Note however, that this is not the exact route we’re going to take. One, because we’re going by rail, not motorway; and two, c’mon, this is Microsoft mapping software we’re talking about here! We’d likely end up at the top of the Matterhorn if we followed its turn-by-turn instructions. To add an extra bit of geekiness, I plan to borrow a GPS receiver to track our journey in AutoRoute. Forget looking out the panoramic windows at glaciers and alpine valleys – I can watch our entire journey in real-time on the laptop!

We’ll try to post some photos as we go along. “The hiiiills are alive, with the sound of Wallis’s...” Now taking orders for chocolate and Rolex watches.
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Re: Off to the Alps    By Anonymous on Thursday, April 13, 2006
I'll take a Rolex. Or a humanitarian organization.
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